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>>45 









Dimensions. 













Inch. 



Lin. 



Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin. 



Length total 



. 7 



6 



Length of bill from rictus 



11 



Length of middle claw 







4* 



„ of tail 



. 3 







„ of tarsus . . 1 



2 



,, of hind toe 



. 



*k 



„ of wing 



. 5 



2 



,, of middle toe . 



81 



„ of its claw . 







9 



„ of bill above 







9 













[64.] 2. Alauda cornuta. (Wilson.) Horned or Shore-Lark. 



Sub-family, Alaudinae, Swains. Genus, Alauda, Linn. 



Alauda alpestris. Forster, Phil. Trans., lxii., p. 398, No. 20. 



Shore Lark. Penn. Arct. Zool., ii., p. 392, No. 278. 



Alauda alpestris. Lath. Ind., ii., p. 498, sp. 21. 



Shore Lark. Wilson, i., p. 85, pi. 5, f. 4. 



Alauda cornuta. Idem, p. 87. 



Alauda alpestris {Shore Lark). Richards. App. Parrtfs Second Voyage, p. 343, No. 4. 



Bonap. Syn., p. 102, No. 158. 

 Alauda cornuta. Swains. Syn., p. 434, No. 45. 

 Ootay-tapaysew. Cree Indians.* 



This very handsome Lark arrives in the fur-countries along with the Lapland 

 Buntling, with which it associates, and, being a shyer bird, is the sentinel, and 

 alarms the flock on the approach of danger. It retires to the marshy and 

 woody eastern districts to breed, extending its range to the shores of the Arctic 

 Sea. Mr. Hutchins states, that " its nest is placed on the ground, and that it 

 lays four or five white eggs, spotted with black. It chirps as it flutters in the 

 air, but has no note whilst on the ground or in flying from place to place." 

 On the advance of winter, it retreats to the southward, and is common in the 

 United States throughout that season, frequenting sandy plains and open downs. 



DESCRIPTION 



Of a male, killed at Carlton House, 14th May, 1827. 



Colour. — Upper surface of the head and neck, lesser wing and tail coverts, and central 

 pair of tail feathersf , purplish-brown orvinacious; the rest of the tail pitch-black, the outer 

 feather bordered and narrowly tipped with white : quills and greater coverts liver-brown, 

 edged with white. Frontlet, chin, and a broad eye-stripe, which dilates on the ears and side 

 of the neck, yellowish-white. Forehead, nasal feathers, under eyelid, cheeks, throat, and 

 upper part of the breast, velvet-black ; the black of the forehead prolonged, over the eyes, 

 into horns capable of erection, like the egrets of an owl. Some vinacious blotches under 

 the wing ; the rest of the under plumage greyish-white : inner wing coverts pure white. Bill 

 bluish-black, pale at the base beneath. Legs blackish-brown. 



* The Cree name of Chee-ehup-peesew, ascribed to this bird by Forster, is, according to Hutchins, the proper appel- 

 lation of the PUctrophanes Lapponica. 

 f Called, by Forster, two long coverts. 



